Behind The Results 23rd February 2010

Eric gives us the information 'Behind the Results' in his weekly global boxing digest.

February 17

Bangkok, Thailand: Bantam: Thangthong (17-0) W TKO 10 Rivo Rengkung (29-9-5). Thai retains IBF Pan Pacific title with kayo of game Indonesian. Thai shaken in fifth but scores knockdown in sixth and has Indonesian well beaten when referee stops it in tenth.

February 19

Mexico City, Mexico: Super Bantam: Julio Zarate (27-5-1) TEC DRAW 2 Adolfo Ramos (17-8). Super Fly: Everardo Morales (33-14-2, 1ND) W PTS 10 Elvis Garcia (9-5-3). “The Shadow”, former WBA bantam champion, has to settle for a draw as Colombian Ramos cut over left eye by clash of heads in second. Veteran Morales, who has had three world title shots, Morales too aggressive for Colombian Garcia and takes nine out of ten rounds as scores of 99-90 from all officials indicate. Wins vacant NABA “world” title.

Tampa, USA: Light: Edner Cherry (26-6-2) W TKO 1 Hevinson Herrera (14-5-1) Heavy: Lenroy Thomas (15-1) W PTS 6 Homero Fonseca (8-3-2). Twenty-seven-year-old former WBC light welter challenger Cherry goes to work early and takes only 109 seconds to batter poor Colombian to a stoppage. Jamaican southpaw Thomas unimpressive as he gets by aggressive Fonesca on a majority decision.

Miami, USA: Bantam: Edel Ruiz (34-22-4) W TKO 4 Clarence Adams (44-7-4, 1ND). Bantam: William Gonzalez (24-3) W PTS 12 Jesus Vazquez (19-4-1). Feather: Luis Franco (3-0) W TKO 2 Anthony Napunyi (14-8). Ruiz, 32, wins vacant NABA “world” title as hurts Adams in third and stays on top to floor 35-year old “Bones”( He turned pro at 15) twice and force stoppage. Nicaraguan southpaw Gonzalez too good for Mexican Vazquez. Has him on the floor in second from a southpaw left and finishes strongly winning by a mile to take vacant WBA Latino title. Wins on scores of 119-108 twice and 117-110. Cuban Franco, 28, a former World Junior champion and 2004 Olympian, staggers Kenyan in second and keeps up pressure to stop him in third. Franco’s family are still stuck back in Cuba.

Cleveland, USA: Light Middle: Shawn Porter (13-0) W PTS 10 Russell Jordan (15-7). Feather: Gary Russell Jr (7-0) W KO 1 Jario Delgado (3-4). “Showtime” Porter has problems with 6’2” southpaw Jordan but is always in front. Jordan, in his first fight since 2008, deducted a point for losing his gum shield to a left hook in ninth as former amateur star takes unanimous verdict by five points on two cards and eleven on the third to win vacant NABO title. Olympian Russell (went out when he missed the weigh-in for his fight), who won the US National and Golden Gloves titles before his 17th birthday, has an easy night against outclassed Delgado.

February 20

Merida, Mexico: Feather: Elio Rojas (22-1) W PTS 12 Guty Espadas Jr (45-8). Heavy: Derric Rossy (24-2) W TKO 2 Joe Harris (10-11). Fly: Wilbert Uicab (27-5-1,1ND) NO Decision 2 Anthony Villareal (9-3,1ND). Heavy: Kertson Manswell (19-0) W PTS 8 Dennis McKinney (28-50-1). Super Fly: Carlos Cuadras (14-0) W TKO 5 Oswaldo Rodriguez (8-9). Light : Jose Emilio Perea (17-0) W TKO 9 Julio Camano. Dominican retains WBC title for first time with a very wide points verdict over former champion Espadas, 35, on scores of on scores of 120-108, 119-109, and 119-109. Rojas wins early rounds with his speed, Espadas has good sixth to eighth, and a storming finish, but not enough nearly enough to overturn all the rounds taken by faster and younger Dominican 27-year-old champ. Rossy retains WBC Fecarbox title as he floors then halts poor Harris in second. Clash of heads sees Uicab cut over left eye so fight no decision and NABF title remains vacant. Manswell, 33 and from Trinidad and Tobago wins decision over poor opponent McKinney who has now lost 18 of his last 19. Prospect Cuadras a class above poor Rodriguez and batters him all the way but stoppage protested. Cuadras wins vacant WBC Youth Intercontinental and makes it 13 by KO/TKO. Perea and Panamanian go to war for eight rounds. Perea suffers bad cut by clash of heads in third, but in front when punch cuts Camano over right eye bringing finish. Perea wins WBC Fecarbox title.

Acapulco, Mexico: Light Fly: Giovanni Segura (23-1-1) W TKO 3 Walter Tello (14-4). Light: Urbano Antillon(27-1) W TKO 3 Luis Areco (22-10-2). Light Welter: Omar Chavez (20-0-1) W KO 1 Eugenio Lopez (12-16-1). Segura halts game but overmatched Panamanian in second defence of WBA title. Segura wining from the first and by fourth Tello hurt and on the ropes at stoppage. Antillon beats Areco due to bad cut caused by punch. One left hook from 20-year-old Chavez, son of Julio Cesar, puts Juarez away after 104 seconds.

Mexico City, Mexico: Feather: Daniel Ponce De Leon(38-2) W KO 3Orlando Cruz (16-2-1). Light Welter: Lucas Matthysse (26-0,1ND) W TKO 4 Vivian Harris (29-4-1,1ND). Light Welter: Pablo Cesar Cano (18-0-1) W KO 1 Marcos Valdez. After two nothing rounds featuring various incidents of head clashes, De Leon wins all southpaw battle as he softens Puerto Rican with body shots and follow-up barrage sees Cruz sit out the count . That’s 32 inside the distance for the former WBO super bantam champ. After two even, hard-fought rounds, with Matthysse hurt in second, hard punching Argentinian takes over in third and has former WBA champion and Junior Witter victim from Guyanan hurt with hooks and uppercuts. In fourth with Harris under pressure referee steps in, but stoppage looks very premature and Harris protests. Cano takes only 49 seconds to finish Valdez

Hammond, USA: Heavy: Fres Oquendo (32-5) W TKO 9 Demetrice King (15-18). Oquendo wins both USBA and NABA titles as King retires at the end of the ninth.

Donetsk, Ukraine: Feather: Oleg Yefimovych (18-1) W PTS 12 Andrey Isaev (22-2). Light Welter: Vlad Kravets (21-0) W TEC DEC 9 Kanat Kartenbayev (10-4-2). Super Middle: Server Emurlaev (16-0) W PTS 12 Bernard Donfack (14-8-3). Feather: Stanislav Merdov (28-8) W PTS 8 Marcel Kasimov (15-22-1). Yefimovych wins wide unanimous decision to retain European title in his fourth defence. Scores 118-111 and 118-110 twice. Yefimovych beat Esham Pickering in a defence last October. Kravets wins technical decision over Kazak’s Kartenbayev for EBU’s External EU title. Emurlaev wins WBA European title with easy points verdict over Donfack by 119-109 and two scores of 118-110 on scores of 119-110. Merdov beats Kasimov 7,8 and 9 clear points on cards.

Herstal, Belgium: Cruiser: Lubos Suda (22-4-1) W KO 11 Geoffrey Battelo (21-2). Bantam: Stephane Jamoye (16-0) W KO 7 Hamis Ajali (7-3-1. Heavy: Kubrat Pulev (6-0) W TKO 3 Isossa Mondo (3-3). Czech Suda, 33, well behind on points, catches up with former EBU challenger Battelo to win vacant EU title. Battelo down for almost ten minutes and taken to hospital, but released the following morning. Jamoye, 20, already EU champ, retains WBC Youth title with kayo of modest Tanzanian. The Bulgarian “Cobra” , who stopped Matt Skelton in his last fight, easily halts Congolese opponent.

Tokyo, Japan: Fly: Takefumi Sakata (36-5-2) W KO 1 Eric Diaz Siregar(9-10-3). Former WBA champ Sakata jumps on Indonesian champion right off. Floors him with body shot and puts him face down for the count with follow-up combination.

Osaka, Japan: Middle: Tetsuya Suzuki (24-8) W PTS 10 Norifumi Suzuki (16-3-1). Southpaw Tetsuya wins battle of Suzukis and retains Japanese title for second time with unanimous decision on scores of 98-92, 98-93, and 97-93.

February 21

Radzymin, Poland: Super Feather: Krzys Cielsak (15-0) W PTS 10 Philippe Frenois (11-1-1). In battle of unbeaten fighters Frenchman Frenois loses hotly disputed majority verdict in fight for IBF Youth title.

February 22

Izhevsk, Russia: Cruiser: Denis Lebedev (20-0) W KO 4 Ignacio Esparza 116-3). Bantam: Alex Bakhtin (25-0) W PTS 12 Nick Otieno (20-5). Light Heavy: Konstantin Piternov (9-0) W TKO 5 Samson Onyango (19-6). Light Welter: Geoffrey Gaya (5-2) W PTS 8 Azad Azizov (22-3-1). Lebedev floors game Mexican at the end of the first and put him down and out at end of fourth to retain WBO Intercontinental title that he won by stopping Enzo Maccarinelli last July. WBC No 2 Bakhtin floors useful Kenyan at end of the first and goes on to dominate and win every round. Scores120-108 and 120-107 twice. Prospect Piternov scores knockdown in first and standing count in second and Kenya pulls out with leg injury in fifth. Onyango was destroyed in less than a round by Nat Cleverly a year ago. Big upset as Kenyan southpaw Gaya starts slowly then takes control and beats Azeri hope on close but unanimous verdict.